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1.6KPersonnelGoogle Hires First Chief Health Officer
As the tech giant aggressively pursues the health market, Google has hired former Obama administration health official Karen DeSalvo as its first chief health...
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1.3KRegulationFed Concerned Trade War Could Trigger Recession
Federal Reserve officials are worried that slowing global growth, exacerbated by the U.S.-China trade war, could sap domestic hiring and economic activity,...
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1.8KB2B PaymentsSMBs Enter 2019’s Final Quarter With Plate Full Of Concerns
The year’s final quarter is upon us, marking an opportunity to look back at Q3 and obtain a reading of small businesses’...
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2.3KRetailIKEA To Take On Amazon With Expanded Smart Home Offerings
Ikea is making big moves into the smart home ecosphere with its biggest investment in decades. The company wants to become a...
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4.4KPersonnelBlueVine Hires PayPal Exec As CCO
Silicon Valley FinTech startup BlueVine has named Brad Brodigan as chief commercial officer to oversee sales and other income-producing functions, the company...
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2.1KEconomyAmid Trade War, US Job Growth Misses Estimates
The trade war, indirectly, seems to have had an impact on hiring. The latest data from the Labor Department show that in...
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2.2KInvestmentsCarlyle Group Makes Large Investment In AI Hiring Firm HireVue
Large investment and equity firm Carlyle Group has taken a majority stake in an artificial intelligence (AI) hiring firm called HireVue, according...
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3.4KPersonnelCred Crypto Lender Names PayPal Veteran As CFO
Cred, a global crypto-backed lending and borrowing platform, has announced the addition of two executive team members. Joe Podulka, a 10-year veteran...
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3.6KPersonnelWalmart Adds Two Global Governance Leaders To Support Financial Services
To help advise its financial services business as one global team, Walmart has added two new global governance leaders. Emma Waddell will...
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4.3KRegulationCitigroup Fined $1.25M For Background Check Infractions
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has fined Citigroup’s global markets business $1.25 million for not performing background checks on thousands of...
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3.8KeCommerceOpendoor Trims Employees And Perks
Opendoor, the startup that operates an online platform for buying and selling homes, “is reshuffling staff and scaling back on a time-honored...
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3.2KB2B PaymentsCash Flow Worries Limit SMB Hiring
Some of the world’s largest conglomerates are raising concerns about an impending economic recession in the U.S., supply chain disruptions stemming from...
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2.3KFacebookFacebook Recruits Blockchain Program Manager
Facebook is reportedly seeking “to hire a finance program manager in blockchain,” according to a new job posting. The move comes amid the...
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1.3KSMBsSmall Business Optimism Rises To Historic Highs
New data showed that small business optimism rose 1.5 points to 105 in May, surpassing pre-shutdown levels. According to the National Federation...
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2.6KPersonnelMastercard Names New President Of Canadian Operations
Mastercard announced on Thursday (May 30) the appointment of Sasha Krstic as president of the company’s Canadian operations. In a press release,...
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3.0KPersonnelWalmart Nabs Ex-Google Exec As CTO, CDO
Walmart has hired Suresh Kumar as its new chief technology officer and chief development officer, according to a report. Kumar will report...
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2.0KCFPBCFPB Announces New Hires
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced additions to its senior leadership and executive teams via an emailed press release. One...
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1.8KSMBsSMBs Struggle To Cope With New Trade Tariffs
Small businesses have sent out a warning to the Trump administration over new tariffs being levied on Chinese goods. The White House...
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3.3KB2B PaymentsHiring Pains, Revenue Optimism Hit Small Business Week
In honor of Small Business (SMB) Week, which kicks off in the U.S. on Monday (May 6), banks and financial service providers...
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2.8KWalmart Amazon whole paycheckThe Amazon/Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: Glimpsing The Future Of Automation And One-Day Delivery
This week both Amazon and Walmart were offering up pictures — albeit with very different levels of detail built in — of how the...
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2.0KInvestmentsPlaid Is Looking To Hire In Europe
Plaid, the FinTech platform provider that recently raised $250 million in venture funding, is gearing up to expand into Europe. According to...
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2.3KAmazonAmazon’s New Arlington HQ Looks To Hire 400 This Year
Amazon has announced that it’s looking to fill jobs for its new headquarters in Arlington, Va., and to help build up the...
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3.8KDeliveryPostmates To Hire More Engineers As It Expands In The Seattle Area
Postmates, the delivery startup that competes against Grubhub, among others, and is expected to launch an initial public offering (IPO), is reportedly...
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3.8KEconomyHiring Boom Sees 196K New Jobs In US
Following a slowdown in February, hiring in the United States rebounded in March, when non-farm payrolls rose by a seasonally adjusted 196,000...
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3.8KAmazonEx-GM EVP Finds A New Home At Amazon
Amazon has hired General Motors‘ (GMs’) executive vice president of global manufacturing. Citing sources familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported...
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3.9KEarningsDampening Earnings Outlook Signals US Corporate Recession?
A recession is generally defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth. You may be, of course, familiar with the idea of an...
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4.6KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Ripple Mulls XRP Recruiting Bonuses; Facebook Hires Talent From Blockchain Startups
Ripple reportedly offered bonuses via its digital currency during its recruiting process, according to CoinDesk. One unnamed source was said to have...
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4.9KPersonnelFacebook Buys Chainspace Team For Blockchain Push
Facebook is making a big push into blockchain technology with some new hires, according to reports. The company recently hired four people...
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4.2KRetailNeiman Marcus Names Two Execs As It Builds Luxury Platform
Neiman Marcus Group announced Tuesday (Feb. 5) the appointment of two executives to lead its customer and store strategies. In a press release,...
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4.1KSMBsSMBs Reign In Spending, Hiring
Coming off a strong 2018, small business owners are becoming more conservative in terms of how many investments they make and how...
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4.3KArtificial IntelligenceReport: Corporate AI Usage Balloons 270 Pct In Four-Year Span
A new report has revealed that the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in companies grew 270 percent in the past four years....
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5.4KB2B PaymentsBanco Santander Pulls Plug On New CEO
Banco Santander announced this week that plans to hire a new chief executive officer have been cancelled. The financial institution issued a...
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3.0KAmazonAmazon HQ2 Posts First Jobs
Amazon posted two job openings mentioning its HQ2 office in New York City. Both positions — posted within the last few days — are for...
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7.7KAuthenticationWhy Last-Mile Logistics Needs Last-Mile Authentication
For consumers, working with various institutions — such as banks, government agencies and medical systems — often means remembering just as many account passwords for...
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6.4KPersonnelVisa Taps Square’s Mary Kay Bowman To Lead Seller Solutions
To head up Visa’s strategy for acceptance products and solutions, Mary Kay Bowman is coming to the firm as its new head...
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4.4KB2B PaymentsSmall Businesses At The Center Of Bots Vs Accountants
Behind many shifting trends in small business (SMB) financial services — the rise of FinTech service providers, the emergence of artificial intelligence...
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4.5KB2B PaymentsSMBs Cautious In Volatile US Economy
An unstable stock market has led many small businesses (SMBs) to cut costs and change their hiring plans for the New Year....
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5.1KPersonnelSquare Talks Temp Payroll
The holiday season always brings with it a major crush of hiring for temporary employees — and the year 2018 was widely...
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6.5KPersonnelFacebook Eyes Engineers, Researchers For Blockchain Team
Social media giant Facebook is looking to grow its blockchain team, according to a report. The company posted on its careers page...
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4.8KB2B PaymentsTalent Crunch Intensifies For Small Businesses, Bank Of America Finds
The year 2018 was a record year for small business (SMB) optimism in the U.S., driven by economic strength, government policy and continued...
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3.9KPersonnelAirbnb Hires Veteran Amazon Executive As CFO
Airbnb, preparing for an expected initial public offering next year, announced Monday (Nov. 26) that Amazon executive Dave Stephenson is coming onboard...
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4.1KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Brussel’s NXMH Acquires Bitstamp Exchange; Ripple Hires Ex-Google Product Specialist
MediXserve is working with the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines in an effort to make the first blockchain research and...
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3.9KRetailThe Retail Holiday Hiring Headache
By some accounts, the 2018 holiday season is going to be a bang-up year for retailers. Unemployment is down and consumer confidence...
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2.5KB2B PaymentsCBIZ Reports Fall In SMB Hiring For September
New data from CBIZ Small Business Employment Index (SBEI) reported a month-over-month decrease in hiring of 2.45 percent in September, which follows...
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3.7KRetailHow US Retailers Are Attracting Seasonal Workers Ahead Of The Holidays
Retailers are looking for hundreds of thousands of retail workers ahead of what is expected to be a busy holiday season: Target,...
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6.2KRetailRetail Pulse: Rent The Runway Opens San Francisco Store; Crate & Barrel Plans Restaurant
To break into the brick-and-mortar world, some digitally native retailers have opened shops inside department stores. However, they are also turning to...
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3.6KB2B PaymentsADP Stats Show Unemployment Squeezing Entrepreneurs
U.S. businesses are optimistic, but that doesn’t mean entrepreneurs aren’t facing increasingly challenging hurdles. The latest data from ADP and other analysts...
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3.7KPersonnelNew Netflix Hire Signals Contextual Commerce Focus
Imagine this: You are watching a movie or TV show at home —it’s been a long week and you are vegging out,...
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6.1KPersonnelJPMorgan Poaches Google Exec For AI Innovation
JPMorgan Chase has hired a senior executive from Google as its new head of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning services. According...
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4.3KGig EconomyStreamlining Hiring With Gig Workers In Mind
A tight labor market, difficult job application processes and greater shifts in professional values are all contributing to greater appeal of the...
